gShift was an enterprise SEO, Web presence analytics and content performance platform designed to help agency and brand marketers optimize, monitor and report on the performance of their multi-channel owned, earned and paid campaigns. The product is discontinued.
$199
Screaming Frog
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$149
per year
Pricing
gShift (discontinued)
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Editions & Modules
kontextURLs
$199
Influencer Marketing module
$299
Brand Professional
$325
Agency Professional
$999
Paid Version
$149.00
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
gShift (discontinued)
Screaming Frog
Free Trial
No
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
SEO Platform pricing is based on the number of keywords per month.
kontextURL pricing is based on the number of clicks registered per month.
Influencer Marketing module pricing is based on the number of influencers and/or rosters managed.
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gShift (discontinued)
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Features
gShift (discontinued)
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
gShift (discontinued)
8.6
Ratings
11% above category average
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
8.7
Ratings
12% above category average
Keyword analysis
10.00 Ratings
7.40 Ratings
Backlink management
6.00 Ratings
6.00 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking
10.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Page grader
9.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Competitive analysis
9.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics
7.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Site recommendations
8.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Task management
10.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
gShift (discontinued)
8.3
Ratings
9% above category average
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
9.5
Ratings
22% above category average
Local SEO
10.00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Social SEO
9.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Mobile SEO
4.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Global SEO
10.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
I have recommended gShift to everyone on my team at work and those who have started to use it have been very happy with the application. It saves a lot of time and makes it so I don't have to have so many tabs or other applications open. It brings a lot of items into once place which is very nice!
Screaming Frog tracks the crawl level, internal links, outbound links, title tags, and meta descriptions of the pages it crawls. It also adds HTTP status codes, title tag length, meta description length, H1, H2 tags and lengths, and canonical tags. Many of these elements are also broken into their own tabs at the top so that you can easily focus in on problem areas. You can right-click on any URL for many more options. The program is definitely valuable to anyone who is looking to gauge factors regarding SEO. However, if you are not a web designer/admin, you're going to lack an understanding of the information it provides.
Collects all indexed HTML pages of the site. This helps for when we are redirecting old URLs to the URLs of a clients new site.
Finds all page titles that are too long or too short and allows us to address them more quickly than waiting for a program such as Moz. It's more immediate.
If we have duplicate meta data on pages, this program allows us to find them, sort them, export them and take care of them in a timely manner. In our business (as for many) time is money.
Minor bugs and defects are an ongoing issue - for example, PDF export capability for custom dashboards seems to be down frequently. While these type of defects are always resolved in 1-2 weeks, the fact that some of them keep reoccurring is an ongoing frustration.
Custom Dashboard functionality is limited to pre-set defaults as far as what data points or "beacons" as gShift calls them, that you could pull.
Customizing the crawler - It takes a little bit of playing around with the settings to understand what each of them controls and what options need to be checked or unchecked to get the right amount of information.
Cannot Crawl a large site - Screaming Frog runs out of memory when asked to crawl a large site, even after playing around with memory settings and allocating additional memory.
The tool has become integrated into our teams daily workings and I have yet to find a tool other than scremaing frog to replicate all of our use cases for it. It's a great tool and we're sticking with it
The main problem of Screaming Frog SEO Spider is it being an offline software which limits itself to a single pc and that creates problem when multi user agents want to get involved or even work on it, it’s a difficult task to collaborate on it and do research for keywords at one place
Screaming Frog is a relatively primitive system, and doesn't need to be supported by devs or other software. Screaming Frog does interface directly with some programs that are most needed (Google Analytics, Search Console, Page Speed Insights), so that's convenient. It isn't widely supported by other programs, but it also doesn't need to be.
gShift is more user-friendly and intuitive, particularly for sharing access with members across your organization who do not have the same level of digital marketing savvy. Additionally, gShift integrates reporting for web analytics, search visibility, social metrics, and PPC in one platform and one reporting tool in a way that the other providers do not.
The biggest difference between DeepCrawl and Screaming Frog is cost. Screaming Frog is significantly cheaper, and fits within a budget much easier. For most websites that aren't huge it crawls quicker to. DeepCrawl is the better tool for analysing larger websites and is easier to use in some ways, with a very friendly interface and some extras features that are useful. Ultimately price was the deciding factor though.
We have been able to identify other keyword ranking opportunities and increase our on-site conversion rate.
gShift has helped us prioritize content and discover content that is over-performing, and better optimize that content and use it for remarketing purposes.
It has allowed me to make impactful and intelligent recommendations to clients. This has in turned deepened the client relationships and led to steady ongoing ROI.
It has also allowed me to diagnose interesting technical issues for non-client sites (like Forbes) which formed the basis for very cool company blog posts.
The investment is very low - this tool does 99% of what I need for a fraction of what other industry crawlers costs. Kudos to the Screaming Frog team!
